22-letter words containing t, r, a, n, s, c
- compactness preserving — (theory) In domain theory, a function f is compactness preserving if f c is compact whenever c is.
- company sergeant major — the senior Warrant Officer II in a British or Commonwealth regiment or battalion, responsible under the company second in command for all aspects of duty and discipline of the NCOs and men in that subunit
- compass deviation card — a card, sheet, or the like, with two compass roses printed on it concentrically, for recording, on a given voyage, the amount of deviation for which the navigator must compensate in using the ship's compass to steer a magnetic course.
- compulsory liquidation — the liquidation of a business in order to settle its debts
- compuserve corporation — (company) The parent organisation of CompuServe Information Service, CompuServe Network Services and CompuServe Remote Computing Services. CompuServe was owned by H.R. Block but is now (1999) owned by America On-Line.
- concurrent massey hope — (language, functional programming) An extension of Massey Hope, by Peter Burgess, Robert Pointon, and Nigel Perry <[email protected]> of Massey University, NZ, that provides multithreading and typed inter-thread communication. It uses C for intermediate code rather than assembly language.
- congressional district — (in the US) an electoral division of a state, entitled to send one member to the US House of Representatives
- conservation of charge — the principle that the total charge of any isolated system is constant and independent of changes that take place within the system
- conservation of energy — the principle that the total energy of any isolated system is constant and independent of any changes occurring within the system
- conservation of matter — the principle that matter is neither created nor destroyed during any physical or chemical change
- conservation of parity — the principle that the parity of the total wave function describing a system of elementary particles is conserved. In fact it is not conserved in weak interactions
- conservative extension — a formal theory that includes among its theorems all the theorems of a given theory
- constitutional monarch — the sovereign in a constitutional monarchy
- constructive dismissal — If an employee claims constructive dismissal, they begin a legal action against their employer in which they claim that they were forced to leave their job because of the behaviour of their employer.
- consummatory behaviour — any behaviour that leads directly to the satisfaction of an innate drive, e.g. eating or drinking
- contextual advertising — a form of targeted advertising used on websites or other media, such as content displayed in mobile browsers
- continuous welded rail — a long, continuous rail formed by welding many short rails.
- contradiction in terms — a term, phrase, or phenomenon containing self-contradictory parts
- conversational quality — (in public speaking) a manner of utterance that resembles the spontaneity and informality of relaxed personal conversation.
- convertible loan stock — a stock or bond that can be converted into a stated number of shares at a particular date
- coronary heart disease — any heart disorder caused by disease of the coronary arteries
- corporate manslaughter — the death of someone caused by an act of corporate negligence
- counterinterpretations — Plural form of counterinterpretation.
- counterrevolutionaries — Plural form of counterrevolutionary.
- course author language — (language) (CAL) The CAI language for the IBM 360.
- crankshaft end bearing — The crankshaft end bearing is the bearing between the connecting rod and the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine.
- crime against humanity — repeated actions undertaken by, or condoned by, a government, deemed to infringe human dignity and safety, such as rape, torture, murder, etc
- criminal investigation — an investigation by the police into a crime
- critical path analysis — a technique for planning complex projects by analysing alternative systems with reference to the critical path, which is the sequence of stages requiring the longest time
- curvature of the spine — a condition in which the spine is abnormally curved
- cut a long story short — to leave out details in a narration
- d'alembert's principle — the principle that for a moving body the external forces are in equilibrium with the inertial forces; a generalization of Newton's third law of motion
- dalton's atomic theory — the theory that matter consists of indivisible particles called atoms and that atoms of a given element are all identical and can neither be created nor destroyed. Compounds are formed by combination of atoms in simple ratios to give compound atoms (molecules). The theory was the basis of modern chemistry
- delayed-action shutter — a camera shutter that opens after an interval set by the photographer
- descriptive cataloging — the aspect of cataloging concerned with the bibliographic and physical description of a book, recording, or other work, accounting for such items as author or performer, title, edition, and imprint as opposed to subject content.
- diachronic linguistics — historical linguistics.
- digital control system — (systems) (DCS) A digital computer used for real-time control of a dynamic system, usually in an industrial environment, possibly as part of a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system. A DCS samples feedback from the system under control and modifies the control signals in an attempt to achieve some desired behaviour. Analysis of such digital-analogue feedback systems can involve mathematical methods such as difference equations, Laplace transforms, z transfer functions, state space models and state transition matrices.
- director of admissions — a member of a university staff who is in overall charge of admissions to the university and its courses
- directory system agent — (DSA) The software that provides the X.500 Directory Service for a portion of the directory information base. Generally, each DSA is responsible for the directory information for a single organisation or organisational unit.
- disciplinary committee — a committee charged with examining alleged breaches of discipline within an organization, profession, etc and adjudicating on them
- distributive education — a special program of vocational education at the high-school level in which a student is employed part-time, receiving on-the-job training, and also attends classes, most of which pertain directly to the student's vocational field.
- dominant seventh chord — a chord consisting of the dominant and the major third, perfect fifth, and minor seventh above it. Its most natural resolution is to a chord on the tonic
- earth inductor compass — a compass actuated by induction from the earth's magnetic field.
- east african community — an association established in 1967 by Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania to promote closer economic and social ties between member states: dissolved in 1977, but reformed in 1999, and joined in 2007 by Burundi and Rwanda
- east australia current — the part of the South Equatorial Current flowing S along the E coast of Australia.
- east greenland current — a cold ocean current of low salinity flowing south along the east coast of Greenland.
- electroencephalographs — Plural form of electroencephalograph.
- employers' association — a body of employers, usually from the same sector of the economy, associated to further the interests of member companies by conducting negotiations with trade unions, providing advice, making representations to other bodies, etc
- enchanter's nightshade — any of several onagraceous plants of the genus Circaea, esp C. lutetiana, having small white flowers and bristly fruits
- end transmission block — (character) (ETB) The mnemonic for ASCII character 23.